Word: everydayness
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...journey from Ulysses to Hustler involves more than a move from literature to smut, from words to images. It involves the transition from the preoccupation of an educated minority to the everyday fantasies of the blue-collar majority. Hustler was launched by a man without any formal education...Now it is the "servants"--the busboys, the farmers, truck drivers and men on the assembly line--who are on the receiving end of censorship, whose erotic tastes are repulsive to a bewildered literary establishment...
Unless you're one of those recluses who lives in the netherworld of Central Square, catches the Red Line for your 11 o'clock at Burr B, and eats wheat germ at Hemispheres everyday, you have to deal with it: Harvard food. Whether you're a freshman living in Hurlbut or a senior in Adams, a pre-med or a poet, you still have to eat what the Food Services provides...
...Rosenthal continues to espouse her "know-nothing" philosophy on science by professing astonishment that such small, seemingly insignificant things as "genes" can possibly influence everyday affairs--we wonder if she believes in atoms? "Did the U.S. wage war in Indochina in order to spread American genes?" she queries in blithe ignorance. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of reasoning powers that Professor Wilson had nothing of the sort in mind when he wrote his book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion...
Hoberman, it must be understood, is an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. He is not like your everyday Harvard professor who has a couple of pops and enjoys the tenured existence--the refugee from Berkeley is not yet a professor but rather an aspiring one who works out of his Scandanavian Department office in Boylston Hall...
...Modern Art in New York. There will be a 1-million-volume library, one of the few in Paris open to the general public, complete with language laboratories and film and tape-recording resources. A Center of Industrial Creation will offer information on everything from the design of everyday objects to the modern city as an archaeological site. Still incomplete is an Institute of Musical Acoustical Research and Coordination, to be directed by Pierre Boulez. There are rooftop gardens, a film center, child-care facilities and a restaurant. The center is also serving to attract new galleries and shops...